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The Post-Crescent · 13 June 1949

CP-1949-018

Palestine Peace Depends on Solving Arab Refugee Problem

TVA for Near East

By Marquis Childs, Washington

Palestine Peace Depends on Solving Arab Refugee Problem — The Post-Crescent, 13 June 1949
The Post-Crescent · 13 June 1949

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“WASHINGTON — No one knows better than Dr. Ralph Bunche, the skilled United Nations trouble-shooter, that the present peace in Palestine is no more than a temporary truce so long as certain causes of friction exist in the explosive Middle East… There can be no permanent peace, he reported, until some solution is found for the problem of the 700,000 to 800,000 Arab refugees who fled from their homes during the war. These refugees are now being cared for with United Nations funds in temporary camps that are seriously overcrowded… A somewhat similar proposal comes from the American Zionist Emergency Council in a memorandum prepared by Eliahu Ben-Horin urging the extensive development of Iraq as a home for the refugees. A political issue arises here. Israeli officials until recently opposed the return of Arab refugees to communities within Israel from which they fled, making an exception for broken families — where the man of the household left behind his wife and children. They have just announced their willingness to restore a larger number in the framework of a general peace treaty. The Arab countries insist that the refugees be returned to the villages from which they came.”

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Run beside an advertisement for oil-burning water heaters.

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"Palestine Peace Depends on Solving Arab Refugee Problem," The Post-Crescent, 13 June 1949. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1949-018. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1949-018

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